EDIT: Don't try to use a balanced cable with these headphones or you will brick your amp, like me :)
This might be a silly question, is there a balanced cable for this headphone? Is that even possible when the jack is only on one side?
cwelton17More people should read your comment. Single ended connections can sound great and be super powerful, but using a “simple adapter” from XLR to SE essentially is shorting the circuit before it even reaches the headphone. If your THX 789 has a fuse inside, it might be fixable? But yeah, NEVER use a balanced adapter on a single ended cable.
EDIT: You CAN use a single-ended adapter on a balanced cable though. The HD 800 S actually comes stock with both its cables with a balanced wire configuration inside, except one is terminated in XLR-4 balanced and the other in a 1/4” TRS Single Ended plug.
EvshrugI hope more people do so they avoid the same heartbreak I suffered haha
No one has responded to my comments about fixing the THX amp on massdrop, I'll have to reach out to THX directly if they help out. I just haven't gotten around to it.